Securing the legacy of the world's greatest geek

In less than a week, donors pledged more than $900,000 to The Oatmeal website's campaign to buy the Tesla laboratory siteGeek mythology and Nikola TeslaA campaign to build a museum to the scientist, inventor and early pioneer of electricity Nikola Tesla has reached its fundraising target of $850,000 in just under a week.Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal website set up the campaign to raise money to buy the site of Tesla's Wardenclyffe laboratory in Shoreham, New York. The fundraising target was exceeded on Wednesday morning, with around 21,000 people pledging more than $900,000 (£570,000) in total - with 39 days of the campaign still remaining.Tesla is best known for his work on alternating current and his ideas were used in the development of radio communications, the electric motor and radar. Born in Serbia in 1856, he went to university in Graz, Austria, and began working for the inventor Thomas Edison in 1884. The pair fell out, however, and each battled for years to convince the world that his way of generat

In less than a week, donors pledged more than $900,000 to The Oatmeal website's campaign to buy the Tesla laboratory siteGeek mythology and Nikola TeslaA campaign to build a museum to the scientist, ...